Salt-box



NITE STATES PAENT FFICE.

SALT-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,588, dated. February 23, 189'7.

Application filed $eptembe1- 12, 1896. Serial No. 605,555. (1% model.)

To 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM EDGAR SI,-

MONDs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Canton, in the county of Her rtford and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new useful Improvement Specially Applicable to Salt-Boxes, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, Wh6I'6lIl- Figure 1 is a view in central vertical section of a box embodying said improvement. Fig. 2 is a view of the same device in horizontal section on the plane w 00, looking upward.

The object of the improvement is to provide a box specially adapted for containing salt for table use.

In the following description the device is mentioned as a salt-box.

In the accompanying drawings the letter (1 denotes the body of the vessel designed to hold the salt. It is screw-threaded at the upper end.

The letter 7) denotes an annulus, also screwthreaded that it may screw upon the body a.

The letter 0 denotes the perforated cover rotarily attached to said annulus, the attachment being such that While the two are held together the cover can rotate freely upon the annulus.

The letter 01 denotes a stirrer fixedly attached to the rotary cover.

The letter e denotes scraper-bars located just beneaththe rotary cover. They are stationary and supported from the said annulus.

I claim as my improvement-- 1. The combination of the screw-threaded body of the vessel, the sorew-threaded annulus, the perforated cover rotarily attached to the annulus, and the stirrer fixedly attached to the cover, all substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the screw-threaded body of the vessel, the screw-threaded annulus, the perforated cover rotarily attached to the annulus, and the stationary scraper-bars, all substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM EDGAR SIMONDS.

Witnesses:

ANDREW FERGUSON, C. E. BUCKLAND. 

